宏智禪師廣錄 8.598

8.598

Seeing through forms and seeking through sounds: / Grasping the Way is not yet correct. / The abyss of self-attainment: / Constancy, bliss, self, purity. / Purity is constancy; / Bliss is self. / These two support each other / Like firewood and fire. / My bliss is without end; / Purity and constancy are without cease. / Clearly preserved beyond images; / Wisdom illuminates the center of the circle. / The center of the circle is naturally empty: / Neither existent nor nonexistent. / Secretly operating the numinous mechanism; / Mysteriously turning the dark pivot. / When the dark pivot and mechanism turn, / The fundamental light auspiciously appears. / Before mental conditioning has sprouted, / How can speech and image be distinguished? / Who is the one that distinguishes? / Clearly, self-knowing. / Completeness includes family wisdom, / Not involving deliberation. / Deliberation not involved: / Reed flowers illuminating snow. / A stretch of luminous clarity, / Boundlessly bright and translucent. / Bright and translucent without direction, / From the beginning not concealed. / Availing itself of the time, it emerges; / Engaging in transformations, it prospers. / Engaging in transformations according to fitness, / Pure joy does not shift. / Empty, holding the ocean-seal samādhi, / Exactly without lack. / The efficacy of having no lack: / Inner and outer fuse and blend. / Phenomenon by phenomenon is absolute; / Gate by gate is open and clear. / The gate open and clear / Is the path of playful roam. / Casting off sense roots and objects, / Refreshingly viewing and listening. / Viewing and listening to conditional connections, / Thousands of hands and eyes. / That other side ceases striving; / My side is constantly continuous. / The wonder of continuity / Leaves no trace or omen. / Bliss within purity; / Illumination within silence. / The house of silent illumination; / The room of pure joy. / Dwelling at ease, forgetting toil; / Discarding flower, taking fruit. / The inscription on taking fruit: / Nothing to be attained or spoken. / Excellent indeed, Vimalakīrti, / Entering the gate of nonduality!